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Re: AW: can't start xfree as user
- From: "J S" <vervoom at hotmail dot com>
- To: RBodack at sseg dot de, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 16:07:52 +0000
- Subject: Re: AW: can't start xfree as user
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I'm doing that already, but as I've got to develop this for other people to
use as well, it's not really an option for me.
But thanks anyway.
>From: Rüdiger Bodack <RBodack@sseg.de>
>To: 'pingu' <vervoom@hotmail.com>, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: AW: can't start xfree as user
>Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:18:13 +0100
>
>
>Hi,
>
>after A while I had enough with win2k rights and added my network user to
>the local administrator group. Now I am the boss on my computer. Not
>elegant, but works.
>
>Rüdiger
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone help out with this problem please? I have XFree86
> > running on
> > Windows 2K and it is fine for me when I'm logged in as Admin but if I
> > log in as a User it won't run. I have a feeling the answer is to set
> > owner of xinit to root but as I'm using cygwin I don't think this is
> > possible is it? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.
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